On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 02:22:48 +0000, > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: > > > > This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO > > > > products. Do not use or recommend the use of: > > > > > > > > * Caldera OpenLinux > > > > * SCO Linux > > > > * SCO OpenServer > > > > * SCO UnixWare > > > > > > So wouldn't that also mean boycotting OSDN -- sites like > > > Freshmeat, Sourceforge, and Slashdot? > > > > Heh, I seem to do that already. The Debian archive is rather > > more useful on the whole than Freshmeat; I moved free software > > I maintain from SourceForge to Savannah a while back; and > > Slashdot is mostly unreadable. > > I'm just curious what's the "ideological" issue around > SourceForge vs. Savannah (I know what of them has the GNU stamp > of approval)? Admittedly my use of SF doesn't extend much beyond > cvs update. > j
SourceForge, while it has been an amazingly substantive freely available contribution to Open Source software and development efforts, is provided/backed by a company that has moved the new versions of the underlying software running the system to a "less than free" product (I haven't read the current license so I'm not sure *just* how unfree it is, but I have read numerous comments wondering about the risk of the plug someday being pulled on the less than "financially free" expense of running SourceForge) while Savannah is a FSF/GNU Project iiuc, based on/derived from the last free version of SourceForge software. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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